It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.